The Co-operative Societies have during the week been I holding their Annual Congress at Huddersfield. On Monday, Mr. George Thomson delivered the presidential address. It swas,...

Sir James Bacon, who died last Saturday at Kensington I Uai dens Terrace, at the age of ninety-eight, though he had left the Bench for several years, was remembered by the...

A letter, signed by the Vicar of St. James's, Mnswell Hill; Mr. Alfred Rowland, Minister of Park C lapel, Crouch Eud; Mr. Arthur W. Groser, barrister, of High gate; and three...

The Spaniards are said to be seriously alarmed at the I state of affairs in Cuba. The insurgents are maintaining an -effective guerilla war, and continually receive supplies of...

lThere are certainly many more suicides from sheer dis. inclination to make any unpleasant effort, than there were a generation or two ago. Only last week we were told of a...

| We greatly regret to observe the death, at Tunbridge Wells last Saturday, of Mr. James Dykes Campbell, much the most candid, accurate, and effective of the biographers of...

The new numiber of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Societu is especially worth reading and preserving, because of its containing the p;lper on alien immigration, which Mr....

The Melancholy of Stephen Allard. (Macmillan and Co.)-The writer of this novel is, according to the preface, a gentle, retiring, and melancholy student, whose private diary,...

Science Progress is so completely " beyond" the ordinary lay- I man, that the utmost he can conscientiously say of it, by way of criticism, is that it continues to keep abreast...

Not much can be said for the June number of Lond on Society. The short stories are poor-witness " Husband and Wife," which is a thoroughly conventional story of quarrelling and...

I Whatever else the Anglican Church Magazine may be deficient in-and it certainly lacks many features of a good magazinethere is no lack of vigour in the style in which the...

The Author continues, under the editorship of Sir Walter I Beeant, to devote itself to the duties and grievances of authors. In recent numbers, a great deal has been said...

The Arena is a characteristically American magazine,-full of I "go," and varied to a fault. The new number is somewhat too suggestive of "promiscuous feeding." The most...

The Art Bible, which the enterprising firm of " George Newnes, Limited," is publishing in sixpenny parts, seems likely to be a great success, although we could have wished the...

The specialisation which is going on among periodicals is demonstrated by the existence-evidently the healthy and hopeful existence-of the Ladies' Kennel Journal. It contains...

B OK S. GEORGE MEREDITH'S STORIES.* THESE three stories, which appeared in the New Quarterly Magazine nearly twenty years ago, are now published in a form worthy of the...

A CAT-AND-DOG FRIENDSHIP. [To THE EDITOR O THR " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-The interesting letter, " A Canine Nurse," in the Spectator of May 18th, recalls to mind an equally curious...

POETRY. WHEAT AND CLOVER. ON one side slept the clover, On one side sprang the wheat, And I, like a lazy lover, Knew not which seemed more sweet,_ The red caps of the clover,...

I IRISH BEAUTIES OF THE LAST CENTURY.* THE authoress of this entertaining and attractive book has been thoroughly diligent in her search for her material, and thoroughly...

TWO AMERICAN BOOKS OF VERSE.* | Two books of verse come to us from across the Atlantic which compare very well with a great deal of the minor verse published in this country....

THE CONTROVERSY ABOUT CHITRAL. WE have much confidence in Mr. Fowler as Secretary W for India. It is a very odd and ironic circumitance that an English solicitor of sixty-five...

The affair at Jeddah is in no way settled. .. .. I .... . . . . - . The local authorities apparently attribute the outrage on the Consul& to the Bedouins, irritated, they say,...

We talk of the spread of civilisation, but there are still I places not a thousand miles from England where deeds are done which match the doings of Timour. The Times of...

I The question as to who relieved Chitral appears to be settled by a letter from the Times' correspondent, who, writes from the fort. He intimates, of course, that the advance...

It is often asserted that the horror of the Jews entertained I by large classes both in Germany and Austria, is in reality hatred of capitalists, and due entirely to...

The International Miners' Congress at Paris has been held this year as usual, and has gone off with apparent smoothness, but we fancy with some bitter heart-burnings. The...

I A murder was committed in Madrid on June 3rd, to which a certain degree of importance has been attached because the murderer, Captain Clavijo, was an officer, and his victim...

On Saturday, at the annual convention of the Irish I National League, Mr. Justin McCarthy is reported to have mentioned John Stuart Mill along with Mr. Gladstone as "among the...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. THE absurd attempt of the local Chinese officials to avoid surrendering Formosa to the Japanese has collapsed at -once. The Governor, acting probably on the...

No official information as to the next step has yet trans- I pired; but it is apparEntly understood that the Powers are I resolute. that they intend to keep together, and that...

I Mr. Bryce, the President of the Board of Trade, spoke at Aberdeen on Monday and Tuesday. In his Monday's speech he dwelt on the merits of the Veto Bill, and referred with...

The papers of Thursday publish the text of the pro- I posals of reform submitted by the Ambassadors of Great Britain, France, and Russia to the Government of Turkey. They are...

On Tnesday Mr. Bryce made a more general speech to his constituents, expressing his belief that it becomes clearer every day that Ireland ought to have a separate Parliament...

THE PRINCE AND THE CRICKETER. PHILANTHROPISTS have been eager that amusement, or, as they usually call it, " recreation," should play a larger part in the general life, and...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. THE CRIMEAN WAR. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SiR,-Is it so doubtful whether the Crimean War served any purpose but getting rid of lives P...

SYCOPHANCY OR SYNONYM P [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-While I appreciatively recognise the polite tone of your remarks (in the Spectator of June lst) on my little...

A DOG-STORY. [To Tu EDITOR 0O THU "SPECATO."] Sin,-A friend thinks I ought to add to the collection of dog-stories appearing in the Spectator, one which is within my own...

THE BIRTHDAY HONOURS. [To Tzm EDrrOR or m SPCTATOEL"] SIB,-In the Spectator of June 1st, writing on the Birthday Honours, you speak of the five new baronets as "men who have...

I The Scorpion. By Ernest A. Vizetelly. (Chatto and Windus.) -Every one does not know that a "scorpion" is a slang name in Spain for an inhabitant of Gibraltar. Spaniards have...

The Scottish Church and University Almanac, 1895. (Macniven I and Wallace, Edinburgh.)-All the religious bodies in Scotland are represented in this volume, the smallest being...

I Without Respect of Persons. By Colin Middleton. (Lawrence and Bullen.)-We give Mr. Middleton all credit for meaning well. The hero's sin is punished very heavily indeed. But...

A A Man of his Word. By Arthur Paterson. (Osgood, Mcflvaine, and Co.)-This is a story of the Wild West, the very Wild West. A young Englishman befriends one of the desperadoes...

Our Wedding Souvenir (Marcus Ward) is an ornamental volume I bound in dove-coloured cloth. The first page presents a form of certificate, the second spaces for photographs;...

I The Planet Earth. By Richard A. Gregory. (Macmillan.)-It is possible that, in one sense, we know less about the earth as a planet than we do about other members of the Solar...

MISS BARLOW'S NEW TALES.* MISS BARLOW, especially when she deals with Ireland, is so delicate and true a painter of life, that even this tiny volume deserves a separate notice....

TRAMPS. W E may be a practical nation, but we certainly do not -W show it in our dealings with tramps. We spend many millions every year on the preservation of law and order...

DEAN BOYLE'S RECOLLECTIONS.* IN these Recollections Dean Boyle has given us a lively and interesting volume. It has been the Dean's privilege to be on intimate terms with many...

CURRENT LITERATURE. The most interesting of the papers in a remarkably readable number of the North American Review is the first of a series of a Glimpses of Charles Dickens,"...

THE GOVERNMENT AND THE PEOPLE. MR. BRYCE'S speeches at Aberdeen are penetrated v with a sense of hopelessness. There are three great issues on which the Government challenge...

THE MAGAZINES. CAPTAIN LUGARD'S account of " The Race for Borgu," which he publishes in the Nineteenth Century, is full, not only of interest, but of charm. The modesty and...

MR. SPENCER'S AGNOSTICISM I IN the June number of the Fortnightly Review Mr. Spencer writes a very calm and dignified, and indeed friendly, reply to Mr. Balfour's "Foundations...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE NEWS FROM CONSTANTINOPLE. THE three Powers, Russia, France, and Great Britain, have been ill-advised in their recent dealings with the Sultan. Instead...

ANIMAL VISION. WRITING in Land and Water on the sleep of fish, Mr. 'W Matthias Dann accounts for the transition state between sleep and waking observed in fish by the existence...

THE TRUE POLITICAL CROMWELLIANS. M R. PUNCH does not often go out of his way to 1M1 make a historical joke, but he has done so this week without hitting the bull's-eye. Mr....

THE NEXT CHURCH CONGRESS. OI NCE more we have a Church Congress not indeed ~%J with us, but impending over us. We do not know with what feelings the Norwich programme will be...